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Some Stuff I Wrote and Some Stuff I Didn't (2011) H. Morris Williams

Tribute to Fred Kinard (CHS 1942)

(Killed during World War II at age 22. Received the Navy Cross

and Silver Star. A street on Lake Jeffrey Road is named in his

memory)

*By John (Red) Davis, (Sports Writer. Lake City Reporter)*

I loved this boy.

His character in the presence of God was his highest virtue.

Despite the difficult circumstances of his life, Fred considered his

mother as the living symbol of how a boy should live.

I knew Fred so intimately that the eulogy in death delivered by Dr.

Edwin F. Montgomery, which I read in the press, electrified his life in
the full light of actuality.

Despite his youth Fred considered good culture as the foundation and
groundwork where all men strive to reach the ultimate in God’s

hemisphere of the living.

Never will I concede that Fred is dead. His memory shall live and live in

the heart of a grateful friend.

On life’s stage of reality Fred did not imitate one way of living on
Sunday and another way some other day. His life was a veritable thing

of beauty on all occasions.

I owe Fred something more than humble words. Having made a study of

boys during a half century, it can be said, without embarrassment, that

all boys will do well to emulate Fred Kinard.

I shall miss him, of course, but NEVER will I forget him.

(Fred, first in almost everything in his life, was the first person buried in

Memorial Cemetery, located across the road from the Harkness National

Guard Armory).

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